Mourchidat - Morocco's female Muslim clerics

Morocco has recently started recruiting and training mourchidat, female Muslim clerics whose role is to help usher in a more moderate Islam. Sally Williams talks to some of the students and watches the mourchidat at work in the community Mourchidat - Morocco's female Muslim clerics

In one sense this fills a vacuum. Theological interpretation had been left for too long with men. It is nice that with changng times women are stepping up. Pakistan already has Farhat Hashmi of AL-Huda International.

It will be out of such (pioneering) efforts that a much needed re-evaluation and re-generation of critical thinking will get a boost.

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